Message travels 39 years to N.C. coast (The Charlotte Observer)

3 December 2008, 4:13 am

A message in a bottle tossed into the ocean off New Jersey has turned up in North Carolina — 39 years later. The note was sealed in a Schaefer beer bottle. It was dated Aug. 17, 1969, and read: “If found notify the North Haledon Fire Co. #2.” Mark Ciarmello and his 3-year-old daughter found the bottle along a beach in Corolla along the Outer Banks in October. That's about 400 miles from where it ...... Read More »

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